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Terrified of blushing? You might have erythrophobia.
Much like computing technology, the Great Red Spot has been getting smaller and faster over the last few years.
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton’s second law.
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.
Binary pulsars are doing what no other measurement has done: measure our galactic acceleration directly. Even though the majority of the matter that makes up our Universe may be completely […]
What qualifies someone for the top position in American government?
Consciousness expert Michael Graziano on what, if anything, makes us uniquely human.
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Over two billion people regularly eat insects. Why are Americans so squeamish?
You get out what you put in, and we haven’t truly invested in space since Apollo ended. Humanity should be an interplanetary civilization by now. There is no scientific reason that […]
Brain plasticity. Mindful superpowers. Pokémon invading our grey matter. Scientists have only begun to learn about the human brain.
Brett M. Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, one of three women who’s accused him of sexual assault, are due to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
The Green New Deal is an ambitious attempt to fight climate change, but is it destined to hit the political skids?
An online conspiracy theory about President Donald Trump is now affecting people and politics in real life.
As the Event Horizon Telescope prepares to release its first results, we can expect not just one, but two black hole images. What does a black hole actually look like? For […]
The Los Angeles Hope Festival is the celebration and examination of hope and optimism, two paradigmatic mental attitudes that play a vital and influential role in our daily lives.
Sponsored by the Hope & Optimism Initiative
Say it should fall. It’ll cost over $1 trillion to rehabilitate the nation. Who’s going to pay for that?
A new study highlights the extent of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States.
Sotheby’s will auction off 380 pieces from Bowie’s collection later this year. The collection is “eclectic, unscripted, [and] understated,” according to Sotheby’s European chairman Oliver Barker.
Today, it’s the most obvious thing in the world. But how do you prove it to yourself? “A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the […]
A new study suggests the brain gets more desensitized to lying with each lie you tell.
The gravitational waves were real. But earlier announcements that X-rays and gamma-rays were detected, too? Not so much. “What’s really exciting is what comes next. I think we’re opening a window […]
And if the Universe is expanding, does that mean these ripples can break the speed of light? “Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of […]
An incredible live-blog of an incredible event. “It’s becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new […]
“Print this map. Get off the internet. Take to the streets.”
Throwback Thursday: How Dark Matter’s #1 Competitor Died The only way out is to modify the laws of gravity, and our best observations rule those modifications out. “The discrepancy between […]
The “constant points of light” in the sky are often anything but. “To be is to be the value of a variable.” –Willard Van Orman Quine We look up at […]
Teaching Girls to See Themselves as Leaders, with Tara Sophia Mohr In order to guide young women to achieve their full leadership potential, life coach and author Tara Sophia Mohr […]
Look up after sunset for the most reliable meteor shower of the year: the Perseids, and learn where they come from! Image credit: Michael Menefee (Fort Photo on flickr), via […]